540 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
" Modern Hardy Fruit Growing," as nothing is included about fruit cultivation 
under glass. 
Now that hardy fruit cultivation is being developed more and more, and is 
likely to be still further increased in all suitable parts of the country, such a book 
as this will be of immense service to the grower, and will be a useful guide to him 
if he will study it carefully, and act on the practical advice so clearly given without 
any undue verbosity. The questions are often asked how much capital is 
required an acre to start, the price of the land, terms of tenure, and other very 
important matters of the same kind ; the selection and preparation of the land, 
protection from ground game, planting, selection of varieties, stocks, methods of 
growing, spraying, grading, marketing, &c. &c, all of which need close attention 
to obtain success, and though the fruit-grower can follow no hard-and-fast rule, 
but must be guided by local circumstances to a great extent, he will find the 
author's practical suggestions of immense help in making up his mind what to 
do, and how to do it in the most economical and approved style. The whole 
book is so well written and so plain that every one can clearly grasp what is 
indicated, and we have no hesitation in strongly recommending it, not only to 
the intending grower for market, but also to the amateur who is anxious to make 
the most of his trees. 
" Our Vegetable Plot." By S. Graveson. 8vo. 3a pp. (Headley, London 
[1918J). Paper covers, yd. net. 
" The Allotment Month by Month." By R. H. Crockford. 8vo. a8 pp. 
(Elliott, Stevenage, 191 8.) Paper covers, yd. net. 
The first of these is a record of a beginner's experience of a year's vegetable 
growing, the second a kind of calendar with recommendations as to varieties 
to grow and so on. We especially commend the advice as to thin sowing and 
early thinning of all vegetables, recommended time and again in the latter, but 
we fear three inches is too deep for the sowing of peas in many soils. 
"Fruit Bottling 'and (Preserving: Practical and Homely ^Recipes." By 
Mrs. Edwin Beckett. 31 pp. (Country Life, Ltd., London," 1918.) Paper 
covers, gd. net. 
We recommend this little book for its clear practical directions, which the 
beginner in fruit bottling will find lead to success if she follow them carefully 
and fully. Vegetables are not dealt with : they are much more troublesome 
than fruits to preserve so as to keep well, of good colour, and retaining all their 
flavour. Jams, jellies, cheeses, and the pulping of fruit are, however, treated of 
in two very short chapters, while a chapter on preserving fruit in cold water 
brings a very useful little book to a close. 
" Plant Propagation : Greenhouse and Nursery Practice." By M. G. Kains, 
8vo. xix + 322 pp. (Orange Judd Co., New York, 19 16.) $1.50. 
This is a thoroughly up-to-date book upon the general methods of propaga- 
tion, full of useful hints and methods for shortening processes in nursery work 
as well as of details of the operations of layering (layerage), making cuttings 
(cuttage), and grafting and budding (graftage). The words in parentheses are 
the titles of chapters in the book under review. Some of the methods described 
are applicable only in districts with very cold winters like the north-eastern 
States and Canada, but, allowing for this, the English nurseryman and student 
will find in this book a very useful and enlightening treatise on one of the most 
important phases of gardening. We especially commend the remarks upon the 
effect of grafting to those who long for plants upon their own roots, and make 
didactic statements as to the peculiar value of these above grafted ones. 
